The only dangerous chocolate I know is white chocolate.
I seriously don't know how people can eat that stuff?
It's chocolate-less chocolate, for people who want to eat chocolate but don't like cocoa! [/jk]
I do enjoy white chocolate (sometimes, if it's not too sweet), but yeah, it's basically milk fudge made with cocoa 'oil' instead of dairy butter. It's not chocolate, since there's virtually no chocolate flavor or cocoa (solids) content.
I know in edge of tomorrow it ends as well as you can expect, but how would having a claymore strapped to your chest kill you? I know it mainly projects in one direction but I imagine that there are major caveats when in the other direction
I know in edge of tomorrow it ends as well as you can expect, but how would having a claymore strapped to your chest kill you? I know it mainly projects in one direction but I imagine that there are major caveats when in the other direction
Well, basic Newtonian physics; Shaped charges like a claymore mine use explosives to propel shrapnel in a specific direction because the material to be shrapnel are all on one side, while a thick steel plate blocks the backblast, forcing most of the force to go in one direction. That said, it's only most of the explosion and the shrapnel going in that direction. Newton's second law states that for all that explosive force traveling in one direction, there has to be equal force traveling in the other, pushing on that steel plate. If you're standing back from the mine, you're much safer, but that steel plate is being pushed with what has to be something like a ton of force, and if you're actually strapping it to your chest, that means your ribcage is now absorbing that ton of force directly.
It's basically the same reason you don't want to stand directly where a recoilless rifle's barrel falls back to absorb the explosive force.
(That said, if it detonated from the side of her coat, it'd probably kill her from some shrapnel that went sideways, but the plate is just tearing a hole through her coat and flying through.)
I know in edge of tomorrow it ends as well as you can expect, but how would having a claymore strapped to your chest kill you? I know it mainly projects in one direction but I imagine that there are major caveats when in the other direction
There's a 16 meter/52 feet danger zone counting from the back and sides of the mine, due to the 'backblast' of the explosion.
The Claymore is sort of like a one-use super shotgun powered by high explosives. The 'gun' here blows up after use (well, "during"), having an effect not too dissimilar from a(n unoptimized) concussion grenade, with shrapnel to boot. So, if it goes off next to the body it will likely turn whichever body part it was next to (and take out a few others) into chunky salsa while causing lung collapse and ruptured eardrums.
There were eyewitnesses' accounts of South Korean special forces commandos strapping claymore mines to their chests with the detonators in their hands taunting their North Korean counterparts during Operation Paul Bunyan (after the Korean DMZ axe murder incident). None were detonated though.